Craters on Moons of Planets

Craters

Mercury••Venus••Earth••Mars••Jupiter••Saturn••Uranus••Neptune••Pluto

Names of Craters of our Planets or their Moons

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We
are quick to judge scientists as atheists, and science as
anti-religion. Nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is
that each language system manifests ideas, feelings, and complex
understandings in different ways, and the choice of words builds a path
to crystallize a thought.

That
scientists have been naming planetary features after explorers,
artists, painters, poets, astrologers, heroes, heroines, and immortals
attests to their interest in things that cannot be fully explained. Like
cavities in rocks on faraway planetary surfaces, where mystery abounds.

This
work is an elegy to that spirit, with an intense love for naming (I had
to take the liberty myself for Charon, whose craters have not yet been
seen or given names), of bringing history, myth, and creativity to the
forefront of scientific exploration—or is it the other way around?